DOI Heft:
No. 303 (June 1925)
DOI Artikel:Sheringham, H. T.: The reserves of Mr. Frank Reynolds
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0310
THE RESERVES OF MR. FRANK REYNOLDS
" THAT CROCUS FEELING "
PEN DRAWING BY
FRANK REYNOLDS, R.I.
(By courtesy of " Punch ")
Hogarth, who was his contemporary, dying
in 1764. Hogarth was a great man, he did
big work, and he influenced English
history* But in adding to the fragments
of life he was not ahead of his time. The
prescription, " When you see a head, hit
it," was a good enough formula both for
him and his public. They would hardly
have understood such a dialogue as I
venture to broadcast from the Punch
Table, with all due apologies for necessity's
offspring :
0 0 0 0, -0
Sir Owen Seaman : " There is a head."
Mr. Reynolds : " Right. A twist to the
left eyebrow and an indication of Old
Peckhamian colours for the tie will do the
trick, I think." 000a
Sir Owen Seaman : " Quite enough.
One doesn't want to overdo it. I must find
a rhyme for Peckhamian, though." 0
The progress of humorous art has no
doubt been greatly stimulated by improved
means of reproduction and by the much
wider public which is reached in every
circling year. The early promoters of
laughter were terribly handicapped by
circumstances. Fancy having to content
the instinct for self-expression with a few
irrelevant drawings on the vellum margins
304
of Saint Maliface, his thousand and three
manuscript discourses ! Or if you had an
urgent message for the Age, something
really vital on the subject of voluminous
trouserings or crowning but curtailed
glories, fancy uttering it through the
leisurely medium of a set of miserere
carvings ! The wonder is really that the
smiling tradition should have survived
through the ages in spite of difficulty and
discouragement. One finds it in all sorts
of unexpected places, in stone or wood, in
pigment and in ink, and not infrequently
wedded in curious union to the more
solemn things. Man has evidently always
had a dim appreciation of the truth to
which Sterne gave nutshell expression and
of what is probably the best of all ways of
putting it to his service. 000
But it is this era that has produced a
Frank Reynolds, able to express a social
movement in a twisted eyebrow, a sartorial
revolution in a striped tie. It is tempting,
but it is not altogether easy, to try to get
" WHAT OUR LEGS HAVE TO PUT
UP WITH : VARIETY IN BOND
STREET." PEN DRAWING BY
FRANK REYNOLDS, R.I.
(By courtesy of " Punch ")
" THAT CROCUS FEELING "
PEN DRAWING BY
FRANK REYNOLDS, R.I.
(By courtesy of " Punch ")
Hogarth, who was his contemporary, dying
in 1764. Hogarth was a great man, he did
big work, and he influenced English
history* But in adding to the fragments
of life he was not ahead of his time. The
prescription, " When you see a head, hit
it," was a good enough formula both for
him and his public. They would hardly
have understood such a dialogue as I
venture to broadcast from the Punch
Table, with all due apologies for necessity's
offspring :
0 0 0 0, -0
Sir Owen Seaman : " There is a head."
Mr. Reynolds : " Right. A twist to the
left eyebrow and an indication of Old
Peckhamian colours for the tie will do the
trick, I think." 000a
Sir Owen Seaman : " Quite enough.
One doesn't want to overdo it. I must find
a rhyme for Peckhamian, though." 0
The progress of humorous art has no
doubt been greatly stimulated by improved
means of reproduction and by the much
wider public which is reached in every
circling year. The early promoters of
laughter were terribly handicapped by
circumstances. Fancy having to content
the instinct for self-expression with a few
irrelevant drawings on the vellum margins
304
of Saint Maliface, his thousand and three
manuscript discourses ! Or if you had an
urgent message for the Age, something
really vital on the subject of voluminous
trouserings or crowning but curtailed
glories, fancy uttering it through the
leisurely medium of a set of miserere
carvings ! The wonder is really that the
smiling tradition should have survived
through the ages in spite of difficulty and
discouragement. One finds it in all sorts
of unexpected places, in stone or wood, in
pigment and in ink, and not infrequently
wedded in curious union to the more
solemn things. Man has evidently always
had a dim appreciation of the truth to
which Sterne gave nutshell expression and
of what is probably the best of all ways of
putting it to his service. 000
But it is this era that has produced a
Frank Reynolds, able to express a social
movement in a twisted eyebrow, a sartorial
revolution in a striped tie. It is tempting,
but it is not altogether easy, to try to get
" WHAT OUR LEGS HAVE TO PUT
UP WITH : VARIETY IN BOND
STREET." PEN DRAWING BY
FRANK REYNOLDS, R.I.
(By courtesy of " Punch ")